Chiton Definition

kītn, kītŏn
chitons
noun
chitons
A loose garment of varying length, similar to a tunic, worn by both men and women in ancient Greece.
Webster's New World
Any of a class (Polyplacophora) of mostly small, ovoid marine mollusks, having a dorsal shell consisting of eight articulating calcareous plates and a ventral foot.
Webster's New World
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A taxonomic genus within the family Chitonidae — certain polyplacophoran molluscs.

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Other Word Forms of Chiton

Noun

Singular:
chiton
Plural:
chitons

Origin of Chiton

  • Greek khitōn tunic from Central Semitic kittān from Akkadian kitû, kita’um flax, linen from Sumerian gada, gida

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From New Latin chiton, from Ancient Greek χιτών (khitōn, “tunic”); see also English chiton.

    From Wiktionary

Chiton Sentence Examples

  • Dorsal view of Chiton Wosnessenksii, Midd., showing the eight shells.

  • This circlet of gill-lamellae led Cuvier to class the limpets as Cyclobranchiata, and, by erroneous identification of them with the series of metamerically repeated ctenidia of Chiton, to associate the latter mollusc with the former.

  • It seems probable that it is identical with one of the open sacs in which each shell-plate of a Chiton is formed, and the series of plate-like imbrications which are placed behind the single shell-sac on the dorsum of the curious slug, Plectrophorus, suggest the possibility of the formation of a series of shellsacs on the back of that animal similar to those which we find in Chiton.

  • Amphineura (see Chiton).

  • The chiton, xcrcww, was formed by sewing together at the sides two pieces of linen, or a double piece folded together, leaving spaces at the top for the arms and neck, and fastening the top edges together over the shoulders and upper arm with buttons or brooches; more rarely we find a plain sleeveless chiton.

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